Cooking Tips: If you like sweetness, grab a red apple; if sour-tart is more your thing, pick a green one. Also, chopped apples will turn brown very quickly, but the yogurt in the chicken salad will stop this from happening.

Keep it Healthy: Combining a little light mayonnaise with no-fat yogurt is a great way for a delicious and still tasty salad.

Storage Tip: When nuts are on sale, buy more than needed and store in a sealable bag in the freezer to keep fresh.

Homemade Potato Chips
1 medium size Idaho baking potato
Cooking spray
Â½ teaspoon pepper
2 baking sheets
Parchment paper
Preheat oven to 350Â° F.
Slice potato as thinly as possible, into about 1/8 inch thin slices.
Place one sheet of parchment paper on one of the baking sheets. Spray evenly with cooking spray and place one layer of potato slices. Spray another coat of cooking spray over the potatoes. Place another sheet of parchment paper. Turn the other baking sheet upside down on top of the baking sheet with the potatoes.
Bake for 20 minutes. Uncover top baking sheet and parchment paper, sprinkle with pepper and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
Remove any chips that begin to turn too brown before the 15 minutes is over. Let cool and serve with pork sliders.

Get the Kids Involved: Shredding the pork when it is cooled and assembling the sliders are safe and fun steps to involve kids when preparing this meal.

Get the Kids Involved: Scattering the biscuit dough and watching as it puffs up and turns golden brown in the oven while it cooks if a safe and fun step to involve kids in the cooking process.

Cooking Tips: Frozen vegetables can be substituted for all vegetables in this dish. To thaw, measure out correct amounts of each vegetable and place in a bowl of lukewarm water. In about 10 minutes they will be ready to use.

Homemade Pizza Crust
1 package dry yeast (about 2Â¼ teaspoons)
Â¼ teaspoon granulated sugar
1Â½ cups warm water
2Â½ + Â¼ cups all-purpose flour, divided
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (or vegetable or canola oil)
Â¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped or 2 teaspoons dried
4 teaspoons garlic, minced
Cooking spray
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand 5 minutes.
When measuring flour, lightly spoon flour into measuring cups and level off using a knife. Add both types of flour, oil and salt and to yeast mixture. Stir with spatula or wooden spoon until all ingredients are mixed well.
On a well-floured surface (use all-purpose flour), turn dough out and knead with hands until dough is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. While you are kneading the dough add additional flour, 1 tablespoon. at a time, so the dough is more manageable. Dough should feel slightly sticky and tacky.
Place dough in a large bowl that is coated well with cooking spray. Sprinkle rosemary and garlic over dough and knead lightly one more time, until slightly incorporated into dough. Spray once more over dough ball and cover. Let dough rise in a warm place (85Â° F), like a cupboard or pantry for about 45 minutes. Dough is ready when it has doubled in size and when you place two fingers into dough, the indention remains. When it is ready, punch down dough by inserting fist into dough ball and releasing some of the air.
Cover and let rest another 5 minutes. Divide dough ball in half.
On a floured surface roll one half into a 12â circle. Top with ingredients above and bake.

Veg-Out â this is a great dish to add vegetables to â consider steamed squash or broccoli, sliced mushrooms, or roasted bell peppers.

Quick Tips on Cooking Pasta:
Pasta cooked Italian style (and letâs face it, theyâre the experts!) is done when its al dente, literally translated âto the tooth.â Pasta is properly cooked when it offers some resistance when bitten.
Donât add oil to pasta while cooking â it isnât necessary and adds extra calories. Also sauces donât coat oily pasta as well.
Always cook pasta uncovered, using plenty of water at a fast rolling boil â stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Be sure the water is at a rolling boil before adding the pasta to the pot.

Pasta â to wheat, or not to wheat?
Whole wheat pasta is a great source of fiber and whole-grains in your diet. Switching cold turkey from âregularâ pasta to whole-wheat isnât for everyone. If youâve tried whole-wheat pasta before and didnât care for the taste or texture try slowly transitioning your palette by trying a 50-50 mix of regular-whole wheat and then transition to all-wheat in your meals.

Chicken Kebabs
Cooking spray
36 pineapple chunks (from the 20-ounce can) in own juices
2 bell peppers, chopped into at least 36 pieces
1 pint grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
12 to 15 wooden skewers
2 cups pre-cooked brown rice or 2 (8.8-ounce) packages fully-cooked brown rice
Preheat oven to 400Â° F. Take chicken out of marinade and place in a bowl.
Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Have kids wash bell peppers and tomatoes before chopping peppers. For kid-friendly assembly, place the pineapple, chopped peppers, and tomatoes in 3 separate bowls.
Let kids add 1 tomato to the bottom of 1 skewer. Top with pineapple, chicken and bell pepper 3 times, letting kids add everything but the raw chicken. Let kids add 1 more tomato to top. Repeat with the rest of skewers.
After 12 skewers are made (and all the chicken has been used), have kids make their own skewers with any remaining pieces. Cook kabobs in oven until chicken is cooked, about 15 minutes. Serve with rice.

Cooking Tips: Pineapples have an enzyme called bromelain that helps to make meat tender, making pineapple juice an excellent quick marinade.

Keep it Healthy: Skewering pieces of meat, vegetables, and fruit for dinner makes it fun for kids to eat, along with a having a meal with a quick cooking time.

Cooking Tips: Grape tomatoes are smaller than cherry tomatoes, so more will fit in a pint container. If using grape tomatoes, there will be enough tomatoes to add 4 grape tomatoes per skewer. If using cherry tomatoes, just stick with 2 per skewer.

Safety Tips: You can also cook these on the grill but first, you would need to soak the wooden skewers in cold water to prevent them from catching on fire.